josst

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   by josst 6y ago

   I think there is a few factors at play here. Firstly its a misconception that that VLS has anything to do with this. VLS has only really been mounted on ships from the 80s onwards. The first US ship with VLS was the Ticonderoga class cruise
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   by josst 8y ago

   Small correction, Colossus was designed to break the Lorenz cypher (which was considerably more complex than Enigma). The machine itself was designed by Tommy Flowers (not Turing), who was a post office worker who had previously worked with
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   by josst 9y ago

   NASA would define life as "A self-sustaining series of chemical reactions capable of extracting energy from its environment and capable of Darwinian evolution. Self-sustaining? Nope. Chemical reactions? Definitely not. Capable of extra
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   by josst 9y ago

   I would guess many of them want to contribute to solving big global challenges rather than simply focusing on a single country?
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   by josst 9y ago

   Just FYI you have a small mistake here: "So why did the Janit0r result to destruction". Should be "resort" I think.
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   by josst 9y ago

   Bitcoin is finite and one would expect the supply to become smaller over time thanks to keys being lost or owners dying and their accounts being inaccessible. In the long term guessing keys may be the only way to obtain new coins.
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   by josst 9y ago

   Airbus is based largely in France and Germany. BAE will likely suffer more as a contractor.